CRIME WAVE AT NEW PEAK
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ATTACKS BV THUGS AND BASHERS IN SYDNEY
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Received Sunday, 7 p.m. 1 ' SYDNEY, July 14. The cbime wave reached a peak last night with a series of attncks by thugs and bashers. When a gunmati pbessed a revolver iilto his back, a taxidriver - jtitnped from "the moVing cab at Ashfield. The taxi scattered a et'owd waiting on a biis stop, mounted the footpath and struck an electric light pole. The gTtnman leaped from the other side of the eab, fired a shot at men who tried to seize him and made his eseape. The driver said the man who had held tlie gun oli him for some time. appeafed to be a stThnger to the district. •Jii daylight a Da.lTihghUfst eafe was held up and robbed by a man who aiined an outomatie at the girl in the cash desk. Tavo men, one of them handcttffed, struck down a constable who was arresting theril after a gang of hoodlums had come 'to their assistance. Men who assaultecl a young wo'man carrying a baby on an undevground station platform, were beaten ofF'by a soldieT and eivilian, Two men who were beaten up by a gang of ten in Darlinghurst Lane, are both in hospital. In tlie Sydney area there were 44 crimes of violenee in June and so fnr 20 in July.
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 July 1946, Page 5
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231CRIME WAVE AT NEW PEAK Chronicle (Levin), 15 July 1946, Page 5
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